Edgar Johnson Allen (6 April 1866 – 7 December 1942) was a British

marine biologist Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms in the sea. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies sp ...

. He was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, r ...

in 1914 and won the Gold Medal of the Linnean Society in 1926 and the Royal Society's

Darwin Medal The Darwin Medal is one of the medals awarded by the Royal Society for "distinction in evolution, biological diversity and developmental, population and organismal biology". In 1885, International Darwin Memorial Fund was transferred to the ...

in 1936. Allen was the fifth Director of the

Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom The Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (MBA) is a learned society with a scientific laboratory that undertakes research in marine biology. The organisation was founded in 1884 and has been based in Plymouth since the Citadel Hil ...

in Plymouth, serving from 1894 to 1936. The citation for his

reads ''In recognition of his long continued work for the advancement of marine biology, not only by his own researches but by the great influence he has exerted on very numerous investigations at Plymouth''.

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Darwin Medal at The Royal Society
1866 births 1942 deaths 20th-century British biologists Fellows of the Royal Society Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Alumni of the University of Leeds {{UK-biologist-stub